“I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible.” — Simon Sebag Montefiore Quote

“I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible.”

“Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.”

“President Yeltsin's instincts were decent: he encouraged the marketplace, the press flourished, and everything started to open - even the KGB archives. Yeltsin reburied Nicholas II. Free from Soviet anti-semitism, he surrounded himself with Jewish capitalists and advisers who returned to public life for the first time since the 1920s.”